28 Oct 2022 --- The European Environmental Bureau (EEB) is dismissing claims that postponing REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) revisions against hazardous chemicals is a necessary opportunity to improve animal welfare. The federation questions the motives behind recent NGO assertions that delays could significantly reduce animal testing in the EU. Last week, after it was revealed the European Commission (EC) would delay the revisions by a year, the EEB accused the EC of folding under industry lobbying pressure amid the economic meltdown caused by the Ukraine war. It says the decision sentences Europeans to decades of further hazardous chemical exposure, which will cascade into additional economic pressure.
